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NOTE V. 



SYNONYMICAL REMARKS 



ABOUT PALAEMON NEGLECTUS NOV. NOM. AND 



PALAEMON REUNIONNENSIS HOFFM. 



Dr. J. G. DE MAN. 



Plate 15. 



Palaemon (Eupalaemon) neglectus, nov. nom. 



(Plate 15, Fig. 6). 



Palaemon acutirostris de Man, in: Journal Linnean 

 Society, Vol. XXII, 1888, p. 280, PI. XVllI, Fig. 7 (nee 

 Dana). 



Palaemon acutirostris Ortmann, in: Zoolog. Jahrb. V, 

 Abth. f. System. 1891, p. 707. 



Palaemon {Eupalaemon) equidens de Man, in : Max Weber's 

 Zoolog. Ergebn. II, 1892, p. 453, PI. XXVI, Fig. 37 

 (nee Dana). 



Nee: Palaemon reunionnensis Hoffmann, Crustacés de 

 Madagascar, 1874, p. 33, PI. IX, Figs. 66 et 67. 



This species was first made known in 1888 under the 

 name of Pal. acutirostris in my work on the Crustacea of 

 the Mergui Archipelago; six specimens had been captured 

 at King Island, in freshwater, the seventh at Elphinstone 

 Island. Soon afterwards, however, Dr. Ortmann (1. c.) 

 doubted the identity of that Mergui species with Dana's 

 acutirostris, which inhabits the Sandwich Islands. I also 

 accepted this opinion and, in 1892, specimens of the same 

 species that had been collected in rivers and brooks of 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, "V^ol. XXVI. 



